A mountain full of desperate souls chasing Nazi gold in Franco's shadow.
At the beginning of World War II, a mineral became necessary for the German state: wolfram. Galicia became “El Dorado” for many people who were looking for easy money and/or work in those hard years of the Spanish postwar. Miners, adventurers, guerrillas, civil guards, political prisoners, etc., lived together in the Galician mountains and intertwined their lives. This is the story of those people told by themselves.
Direction
Lets survivors speak without intrusive narration.
Production
Stark Galician landscapes that outlast all the miners.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wolfram was crucial for armor-piercing ammunition; Spain supplied both Axis and Allies while officially 'neutral.' Galician miners had no idea their backbreaking work fed two war machines.
The film belongs to a suppressed tradition of Galician documentary that Franco's regime buried—this 2003 release was itself an act of recovered memory.
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